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September 7, 2006
It came from the Blogosphere...
The Brooklyn Record, Atlantic Yards Update
All the Atlantic Yards controversy can be hard to keep up with, so for all you Brooklynites who aren't tuned into the various blogs devoted to it (or devoted to putting the kibosh on it), here's the news in a nutshell.
Community Commentary: Andy Bachman, What He Says, What He Does
An account of last night's 11th District Congressional candidates debate casts Chris Owens and David Yassky as the heavies. The Rabbi contrasts the two candidates' styles as principled rhetoric vs. the effective compromise and gives the following as one example:
One, as distinct from the red-meat line about not standing up to Bush if you can’t stand up to Ratner, Yassky calmly explained how he fought developers as a city councilman and wrought huge concessions on the Brooklyn Waterfront Development as well as introducing hybrid taxis to the city’s fleet (I know, I’m a nerd).
Neighborhood Retail Alliance, Kudos to the NY Daily News
Ratner consultant Richard Lipsky high fives the Daily News for yesterday's editorial supporting the Atlantic Yards project.
There is no compromise with the these folks and any further concessions, as the News points out, will only serve to hurt the project's recognized benefits. Let's just move forward and forget the human shields.
NoLandGrab: Sounds like the "newly minted volunteers" are ready to bulldoze those human shields!
Power Plays (political blog of The Village Voice, Mark Green's Three Questions
In the highlights from Tuesday's Attorney General debate, Maloney took a strong stand against eminent domain in a question about environmental issues:
Green said that getting GE to clean up the Hudson is the biggest environmental issue out there. Maloney said it was the use of eminent domain, which requires "a system that is open, transparent, and fair"—unlike the Atlantic Yards deal. Cuomo believes mercury emissions take the cake.
Posted by lumi at September 7, 2006 7:58 AM